Ryan Ong
Lead AI Engineer at Orbii | أوربي
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolRyan Ong is a Lead AI Engineer with eight years of experience building NLP and AI products across startups, fintech and education tech, currently based in Dubai. He has progressed from hands-on NLP roles at KPMG and Finatext to leadership positions including Lead Data Scientist at Zopa and Lead AI Engineer at Orbii, blending research-grade rigor from Imperial College with product-focused delivery. Ryan co-founded a startup, created technical courses at DataCamp, and has a pattern of moving between building teams and shipping customer-facing AI features. He is passionate about lifestyle gamification and brings that creative lens to designing engaging AI-driven experiences. Outside of roles, he curates actionable knowledge through a popular newsletter and personal site, signaling an emphasis on clear communication and community building. Colleagues describe him as a builder who balances entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined, production-ready ML engineering.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Imperial College LondonBachelor's Degree BSc Economics (Sandwich), Bachelor's Degree BSc Economics (Sandwich) at University of BathA-levels, A-levels at Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys
Github Skills (27)
autoencoder7
datasets5
machine-learning5
machine-translation4
relation-extraction4
hierarchical4
deep-learning4
reinforcement-learning4
sentiment-analysis3
tensorflow3
summarization3
pytorch3
information-extraction3
tpu2
nlp2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RyanOngAI/deeplearningai
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
RyanOngAI/research_papers
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:47 commits in 4 months
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